There has been a significant uptick in the amount of money Kerry Group has spent on buying its own shares over recent days, with the company spending €4.53m on Tuesday alone – a pace of purchases that is equal to €8,884 a minute during the eight and a half hours of market trading.The purchases come as part of Kerry Group’s €300m share buyback programme which was launched at the start of May. The current programme follows another similar sized operation which ran between November 2023 and April of this year.